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href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a></span><br />from <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Maryland%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Maryland's 5th congressional district">5th</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1891–1894</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Emanuel_Mudd_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Emanuel Mudd I">Sydney Emanuel Mudd I</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edward_Coffin" 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Holton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Emanuel_Mudd_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Emanuel Mudd I">Sydney Emanuel Mudd I</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Treasurer_of_Maryland" title="Treasurer of Maryland">Treasurer of Maryland</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1874–1885</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Governor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Pinkney_Whyte" title="William Pinkney Whyte">William Pinkney Whyte</a><br /><a href="/wiki/James_Black_Groome" title="James Black Groome">James Black Groome</a><br /><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Carroll" title="John Lee Carroll">John Lee Carroll</a><br /><a href="/wiki/William_T._Hamilton" title="William T. Hamilton">William T. Hamilton</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Robert_Milligan_McLane" title="Robert Milligan McLane">Robert Milligan McLane</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_W._Davis_(Maryland)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John W. Davis (Maryland) (page does not exist)">John W. Davis</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_S._Gittings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John S. Gittings (page does not exist)">John S. 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Cox</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_Snyder_(Maryland)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Snyder (Maryland) (page does not exist)">Henry Snyder</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_Senate" title="Maryland Senate">Maryland Senate</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1867–1872</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_House_of_Delegates" title="Maryland House of Delegates">Maryland House of Delegates</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1860–1861</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1830-11-16</span>)</span>November 16, 1830<br /><a href="/wiki/Port_Tobacco,_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="Port Tobacco, Maryland">Port Tobacco, Maryland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 2, 1898<span style="display:none">(1898-12-02)</span> (aged 68)<br /><a href="/wiki/Laurel,_Maryland" title="Laurel, Maryland">Laurel, Maryland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Loudon_Park_Cemetery" title="Loudon Park Cemetery">Loudon Park Cemetery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Margaret Holiday Sothoron</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1858)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Princeton_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Princeton College">Princeton College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">A.B.</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Barnes Compton</b> (November 16, 1830 – December 2, 1898) was a <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">Representative</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Maryland%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Maryland's 5th congressional district">fifth congressional district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Treasurer_of_Maryland" title="Treasurer of Maryland">Treasurer of Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barnes_Compton&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Barnes Compton was born on November 16, 1830, in <a href="/wiki/Port_Tobacco,_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="Port Tobacco, Maryland">Port Tobacco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_County,_Maryland" title="Charles County, Maryland">Charles County, Maryland</a> to Mary Clarissa (née Barnes) and William Penn Compton.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents both died when he was young, and he was raised until 1843 by his grandfather, John Barnes.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hall_Military_Academy" title="Charlotte Hall Military Academy">Charlotte Hall Military Academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_County,_Maryland" title="St. Mary's County, Maryland">St. Mary's County, Maryland</a> for his formal education, and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Princeton_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Princeton College">Princeton College</a> with a bachelor's degree in June 1851.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a young age, he became the second largest slaveholder in Charles County.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barnes_Compton&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After college, Compton returned home and engaged in agricultural pursuits and as a planter. He first ran for the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_House_of_Delegates" title="Maryland House of Delegates">State House of Delegates</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a> ticket in 1855, but lost.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He re-ran in 1859 as a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> and served as a member of the State House of Delegates in 1860 and 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1861 session, held in <a href="/wiki/Frederick,_Maryland" title="Frederick, Maryland">Frederick</a>, a number of legislative members were suspected of Confederate sympathies and were arrested upon arrival in Frederick. Compton evaded arrest by fleeing across the <a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac</a>. In 1865, Compton was arrested and imprisoned at the <a href="/wiki/Old_Brick_Capitol" title="Old Brick Capitol">Old Capitol</a> under suspicion of aiding and abetting <a href="/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth" title="John Wilkes Booth">John Wilkes Booth</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Assassination of Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln Assassination</a>, but the information was proven false and he was released after four days.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was also a member of the <a href="/wiki/Maryland_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Maryland State Senate">State Senate</a> in 1867, 1868, 1870, and 1872, during the 1868 and 1870 sessions he served as the Senate president in 1868. Compton also served as State Tobacco Inspector in 1873 and 1874 and as <a href="/wiki/Treasurer_of_Maryland" title="Treasurer of Maryland">Treasurer of Maryland</a> from 1874 to 1885.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Compton then moved to <a href="/wiki/Laurel,_Maryland" title="Laurel, Maryland">Laurel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland" title="Prince George's County, Maryland">Prince George's County, Maryland</a> in 1880 and was elected as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democrat</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Forty-ninth_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Forty-ninth United States Congress">Forty-ninth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fiftieth_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiftieth United States Congress">Fiftieth United States Congress</a> (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1889). He presented credentials as <a href="/wiki/Member-elect" class="mw-redirect" title="Member-elect">Member-elect</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Fifty-first_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifty-first United States Congress">Fifty-first United States Congress</a> and served from March 4, 1889, to March 20, 1890, when he was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Emanuel_Mudd_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Emanuel Mudd I">Sydney E. Mudd, Sr.</a>, who contested the election. A committee was appointed to investigate <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">voter fraud</a> and ruled in favor of Mudd.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Compton was later elected to the <a href="/wiki/Fifty-second_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifty-second United States Congress">Fifty-second</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fifty-third_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifty-third United States Congress">Fifty-third United States Congress</a> and served from March 4, 1891, until his resignation, effective May 15, 1894 when he was then appointed by President <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a> as Naval Officer of the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Baltimore" title="Port of Baltimore">Port of Baltimore</a>, a post in which he served from 1894 to 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Compton taught agriculture at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland_College_of_Agriculture_and_Natural_Resources" title="University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources">Maryland Agricultural College</a>. He also sat on the board of trustees for the Charlotte Hall Military Academy, the School Commission of Charles County, and the <a href="/wiki/Spring_Grove_Hospital_Center" title="Spring Grove Hospital Center">Maryland Hospital for the Insane</a>. In 1890, he was a cofounder and appointed director of the <a href="/wiki/Citizens_National_Bank_(Laurel,_Maryland)" title="Citizens National Bank (Laurel, Maryland)">Citizens National Bank of Laurel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1898, he was made president of the Guarantee Building and Loan Association of Baltimore.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barnes_Compton&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He married Margaret Holiday Sothoron of <a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_County,_Maryland" title="St. Mary's County, Maryland">St. Mary's County</a> on October 27, 1858.<sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together, they had four sons and two daughters:<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>John Henry Sothoron Compton</li> <li>Key Compton</li> <li>William Penn Compton</li> <li>Barnes Compton</li> <li>Mary Barnes Compton</li> <li>Elizabeth Somerville</li></ul> <p>He was the great-grandson of <a href="/wiki/Philip_Key_(Representative)" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Key (Representative)">Philip Key</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a friend of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Pue_Gorman" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Pue Gorman">Arthur Pue Gorman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barnes_Compton&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Compton died on December 2, 1898, of paralysis in <a href="/wiki/Laurel,_Maryland" title="Laurel, Maryland">Laurel, Maryland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was interred in <a href="/wiki/Loudon_Park_Cemetery" title="Loudon Park Cemetery">Loudon Park Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MSA_1-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-baltsun_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-baltsun-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Barnes_Compton&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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Annapolis, Maryland: Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series). 2008. MSA SC 3520-1545.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Barnes+Compton+%281830%E2%80%931898%29+Extended+Biography&rft.place=Annapolis%2C+Maryland&rft.pub=Archives+of+Maryland+%28Biographical+Series%29&rft.date=2008&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmsa.maryland.gov%2Fmegafile%2Fmsa%2Fspeccol%2Fsc3500%2Fsc3520%2F001500%2F001545%2Fhtml%2F1545extendedbio.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABarnes+Compton" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArps2009" class="citation book cs1">Arps, Walter E. (May 9, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=27hWTmSDNQkC&dq=barnes+compton+december+2,+1898&pg=PA51"><i>Maryland Mortalities, 1876–1915, from the (Baltimore) Sun Almanac</i></a>. 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